“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

Khalil Gibran counsels, “Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”

Be regular and orderly in your life like a Bourgeois so that you may be violent and original in your work.

MEDIOCRITY IS SELF-INFLICTED AND GENIUS IS SELF-BESTOWED.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

My life is my message.

My favorite definition of an optimist is that person who when given a barnful of manure runs through it shouting, “I know there’s a pony in here somewhere!”

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.

Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Make love your aim.

You start a question, and it’s like starting a stone. You sit quietly on top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

Language lends reality to reality.

We move along the path of our expectations.

A story doesn’t live until it’s imagined in someone’s mind.

There never has been an answer, there never will be an answer – that’s the answer.